1st Edition
Racial Equity and Campus Climate at America’s Community Colleges
Introduction: Freedom to Inquire, Courage to Speak: Racial Issues in Community Colleges
Deborah L. Floyd
1. Advancing the Study of Race, Racial Equity, and Racial Climates at America’s Community Colleges
Shaun Harper
2. Campus Racial Climate and Faculty Interactions Among Students of Color at Hispanic-Serving Community Colleges
Royel M. Johnson, Jihye Kwon and Adrián Trinidad
3. Racelighting Impact Theory
Frank Harris III, J. Luke Wood, Tina M. King and Idara Essien-Wood
4. Tinkering Toward Racial Equity: White Community College Faculty Disrupting and Preserving Their White Innocence
Román Liera and Cheryl D. Ching
5. Using QuantCrit to Understand the Academic Momentum of Southeast Asian and Pacific Islander Community College Students
Federick Ngo and Chantra Nhien
6. “Who’s Going to Believe Me?”: Women of Color Community College Faculty and Institutional Challenges
Rebecca Cepeda
7. Centering Communities of Color in Community College Enrollment Practices: Recommendations from Black and Latine Students
Marcela G. Cuellar and Nancy Acevedo
8. Three Decades of Campus Racial Climate Studies and 25 New Directions for Future Research
Shaun Harper and Oscar E. Patrón
Biography
Shaun Harper is University Professor and Provost Professor of Education, Business, and Public Policy at the University of Southern California. He has done strategy advising, high-quality professional learning workshops, and campus climate assessments for more than 100 community colleges in California, Texas, Florida, New York, and other states.
